The Whisky 50 Marathon lived up to its name yesterday as I could’ve used about 50 shots of whisky to get my mind off the race once crossing the finishing line. That and a box full of band aids. The race started out pretty tame as a group of 40 of us stayed togethar going […]
Thursday was a solid travel day down here to Prescott Arizona. It is great down here. Warm temps, stunning cacti filled landscapes and some solid desert sunsets. A slight change from the cloudy drizzle on Vancouver Island. Kris and I are still squinting as our eyes aren’t yet use to the brightness of the sun
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Getting on a ferry is like trying to get into a bar in Quebec while underage. The odds are in your favour but once in a while you get ko’d. Today was one of those days while trying to get off Vancouver Island. Logically a 3 pm ferry in the middle of the week should
Last Thursday afternoon 4 of us islanders loaded up a poor unsuspecting little car with 5 bikes and a weekend of race gear and headed south to Washington state for the Tour of Walla Walla. Road racing is a sweet way to get in some solid preseason training and a 3 day, 4 race SR in the middle
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The past 10 days on the island the weather has earned a “F” grading but the biking has been A+. 2 island cup xc races (Campbell river and Cumberland), 2 victories, 1 random 3 day bike tour/camping trip around Campbell river/ Quadra island and close to 30 hrs on the bike. All this has added
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Hibernation. That is why this blog is still not functioning. There’s good news though as spring is nearly here and that means Mr. Wally is coming out of his winter coma. The last 3 winters this has been avoided in thanks to Central America but this yr Mr.Wally decided to stay in Canada for the
This blog has been functioning like my mind since the Vuelta de Costa Rica. Riding around chasing supercharged 125 lbs latin americans up and down mountain sides for 12 days has a lasting effect on us Canadian hockey players. We should be in good shape for pond hockey when we return to the north…. After